Re: CTRL+ALT+Backspace will kill the X-server
"Sridhar M.A." <mas@uomphysics.net> writes:
> If you want to temporarily disable booting to xdm on your VT100 and
> revert to xdm once you get back the monitor, just disable the xdm
> startup from all levels.
>
> # update-rc.d -f xdm remove
>
> After you get back the monitor,
>
> # update-rc.d xdm defaults
Neither of these are the right answer. (a) will cause the /etc/rc?.d
links to be put back into place if the package gets upgraded; (b) will
put the links back, but at the wrong priority, so xdm would get
started before things like cron. Not a huge deal, but it's probably
easier to leave one runlevel (say, 5) in the "pristine" state; delete
/etc/rc2.d/S99xdm if you don't want xdm to start, and then use 'ln -s'
to make a link identical to what's in /etc/rc5.d if you want to bring
it back.
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